Babiana villosa (Sol.) Ker Gawl.

Species

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Characteristics

Plants 100-200 mm high. Stem usually strongly deflexed, velvety hairy, sometimes branched. Leaves lanceolate, pleated, hairy. Spike ascending, 3-to 8-flowered; bracts green with dry brown tips, outer, 13-24(-28) mm long, inner 1/2-2/3 as long, divided to base. Flowers actinomorphic, scarlet, purple or mauve-pink, unscented; perianth tube slender, 16-28(-36) mm long; tepals subequal, ovate, 28-33 x 12-15 mm, partly cupped even when fully open. Stamens symmetrically arranged; filaments erect, surrounding style, 8-15 mm long; anthers arrow-shaped with prominent connective wider in lower 1/3, dark purple to blackish, 7-9 mm long, up to 3 mm wide, ± latrorse. Ovary hairy; style dividing shortly below or opposite anther bases, branches 2-3 mm long.
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Cormous geophyte to 15 cm. Leaves lanceolate, hairy. Flowers several in an erect spike, red to red-purple or pink, with tube filiform to near tip and then abruptly expanded, ovary hairy, anthers black, with connectives expanded, inner bracts divided to base.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Images

Babiana villosa unspecified picture

Distribution

Babiana villosa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:436166-1
WFO ID wfo-0000788210
COL ID K6GX
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Synonyms

Ixia punicea Babiana villosa Gladiolus latifolius Belamcanda villosa Ixia villosa Babiana punicea Babiana rosea Gladiolus mucronatus Gladiolus puniceus Babiana stricta var. villosa Babiana villosa var. grandis Babiana villosa var. villosa